Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon named the best goalkeeper in football history ever. He took the first place in the survey organized by the magazine France Football. In the survey participated 24 548 voters.

Buffon scored 44% of the total number of votes. Second place got former goalkeeper of France, Fabien Barthez (17%) and the third place shared between Lev Yashin (USSR, which is the only goalkeeper-owner of "Golden Ball") and Oliver Kahn (Germany) - both scored 7% of the vote.

38-year-old Buffon is world champion and silver medalist of the European Championship with the national team of Italy, eight times champion of Italy and twice finalist of the Champions League.

Gianluigi "Gigi" Buffon (born 28 January 1978) is an Italian professional goalkeeper who plays for and captains both Serie A club Juventus and the Italian national team. Buffon is the most capped player in the history of the Italian national team with 154 caps. He is widely considered by players, pundits and managers to be one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, and, by some, to be the greatest ever. Buffon is known for his "outstanding shot-stopping" and for being "a vocal organizer of the defence and a key dressing room personality." He is currently the most expensive goalkeeper in history. Buffon also holds the record for the most clean sheets in Serie A and with the Italian national team.

He was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players in 2004. He has been named the Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year a record ten times. Buffon was the winner of the 2006 Yashin Award following Italy's World Cup victory, in which he was also elected to be part of the Team of the Tournament; an honour which he also received after reaching the final of the 2012 European Championships. Buffon is the only goalkeeper to have won the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year Award, which he won in 2003 after reaching the Champions League final; He also won the award for best Goalkeeper that year, and was voted into the UEFA Team of the Year in 2003, 2004 and 2006. In 2006, Buffon was runner-up for the Ballon d'Or and was elected to be part of the FIFPro World XI, an honour which he also achieved in 2007. After reaching the 2015 Champions League final, he was named to the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season, and placed fourth in the 2015 UEFA Best Player in Europe Award.

Fabien Barthez.

Fabien Alain Barthez is a French former footballer who won honours as a goalkeeper with Marseille, Manchester United and the French national team, with whom he won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000 and reached the final of the 2006 World Cup. He shares the record for the most World Cup finals clean sheets with Peter Shilton, with 10. In club football he won the Champions League as well as several Ligue 1 and Premier League titles.

Barthez began a career in motorsport in 2008 after retiring from football a year earlier. In 2013 Fabien Barthez has won France's GT motorsport series in his 42 years old.

The champion, who took the title in a Ferrari 458 Italia GT, told Le Mans live: "I have always been fascinated by motorsport, even when I was playing football. It always intrigued me."I wanted to understand what it felt like being in a car. I had to wait until the end of my pro career to try it. "That said, it’s not like football: you can still be good even when you are 35, which was my age when I stopped playing."